VINTAGE MANHATTAN SKYLINE

The 59-story Pan American World Airways Headquarters Building, above Grand Central Station. 200 Park Avenue, between east 43rd to 45th streets. Emery Roth & Sons: Architects. Walter Gropius and Pietro Belluschi: Consultant Architects. 1959-1963.

View looking northeast of the Pan Am Building (Walter Gropius-Emery Roth & Sons-Pietro Belluschi, 1963) before its opening with the Chrysler Building (William Van Allen, 1930) at right. Early, 1963.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: Progressive Architecture, September, 1963

The 45-story Rockefeller Center’s Sperry Rand Building. 1290 Avenue of the Americas between east 51st to 52th streets. Emery Roth & Sons, architects. Harrison & Abramovitz, consultant architects, 1961-1963.

View looking southeast of the Sperry Rand Building, in late Summer, 1963. In foreground, the precast concrete structure for the CBS Building (Eero Saarinen Associates, 1965), under construction, began to riese up. 

Photo: Wurts Brothers/Museum of the City of New York.

The 30-story concrete prefabricated panels and glass Bankers Trust Company Building. 280 Park Avenue, East 48th to East 49th Street. Emery Roth & Sons-Shreve, Lamb & Harmon-Henry Dreyfuss. 1960-1962.

View to the northwest of new Bankers Trust Building. Early, 1963.

Photo. Ezra Stoller/ESTO.

Source:  Stern, Robert A.M.; Mellin, Thomas; Fishman David. “New York 1960. Architecture and urbanism between the Second World War and the Bicentennial” New York. The Monacelli Press. Second Edition. 1997.

Queensboro Bridge and Midtown Manhattan skyline at background. View looking southwest. Spring, 1963.

The United Nations Headquarters (Wallace K. Harrison, 1948-1952) are at left. The Empìre State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931), Chrysler (william Van Allen, 1930) and Pan Am (Walter Gropius-Emery Roth & Sons-Pietro Belluschi, 1963) buildings are at center. Union Carbide Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1960, now under demolition) can be seen at right,

Aerial view looking north of Midtown Manhattan’s Grand Central district, in early 1963. The Pan Am Building are at center, witn the Rockefeller Center above, left; and the Chrysler Building att right,

Photo: Fairchild Aerial Surveys.

Source: Architectural Forum, November, 1963.

ROCKEFELLER CENTER EVOLUTION

Aerial view looking west of Rockefeller Center, in Spring, 1963.

Photo: Charles E. Rotkin/LIFE

Source: "Official Guide New York World's Fair 1964/1965" (New York, Time & Life, 1964).

ROCKEFELLER CENTER EVOLUTION

Aerial view looking northeast of Rockefeller Center, in Spring, 1963.

In this picture showing the original Rockefeller Center complex (The Associated Architects: Reinhard & Hofmeister; Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray; Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux; Edward Durrell Stone, 1931-1940) that dominated by the 70-story R.C.A. Building (Associated Architects, 1933), and the new International Style glass boxes in Avenue of the Americas that surround it. Two of these buildings: the 48-story Time & Life Building (Harrison & Abramovitz, 1959), at left; and the recently completed 45-story Sperry Rand Building (Emery Roth & Sons-Harrison & Abramovitz, 1963) are the new additions to Center.

Other new building over Avenue of the Americas and its neoghborhood, that show in this picture are, the 52-story Americana Hotel ( (Morris Lapidus, Kornblath, Harle & Liebman, 1962), the American Managment Associated (Sports Illustrated) Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1963) and the new 46-story New York Hilton Hotel (William B. Tabler-Harrison & Abramovitz, 1963), at left. The ziggurat modern building at right, below, is the new 21-story 1188 Avenue of the Americas Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1963).

Photo: Thomas Airviews/NYPL.

The 46-story New York Hilton Hotel (originally The New York Hilton at Rockefeller Center). 1335 Avenue of the Americas, between west 53rd to 54th Streets. William B. Tabler-Harrison & Abramovitz, 1961-1963.

The recently completed New York Hilton hotel in this night view looking north from Time & Life Building, in summer, 1963.

Photo: Al Fenn/LIFE

Source: Architectural Forum. August 1963.

Aerial view looking south of Midtown Manhattan, in early Summer, 1963. The Chrysler, Pan Am and Union Carbide buildings are at left. The Empire State Building art above, center, dominating the skyline. The Rockefeller Center buildings, dominated by R.C.A. building art at right.

Photo: Charles E. Rotkin-Alcoa.

Source: Architectural Record, March 1969.

Aerial view looking south of Midtown Manhattan, in late Summer, 1963.

Photo: Cornell Capa/Magnum.

Source: Barbara M. Parramore, Dan D'Amelio. "Social Studies". (Glenview, Illinois, Scott, Foresman & Company. 1982).

Aerial view looking north of Midtown Manhattan. Autumn, 1963.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: Nester´s Map & Guide Corp.

Night view, looking southwest, of Rockefeller Center’s skyscrapers area, on Midtown Manhattan, in Autnumn, 1963. The Empire State Building can be seen on backgroound, left.

Photo: Peter Fink

Source: Robert F. Wagner, Joyce Peterson, Peter Fink. “New York que j’aime…” (Paris, Editions Sun, 1964).

Evening view looking west of Lower Manhattan’s Financial District skyline, from St. George Hotel in Brooklyn. Fall, 1963.

Photo: Peter Fink

Source: Robert F. Wagner, Joyce Peterson, Peter Fink. “New York que j’aime…” (Paris, Editions Sun, 1964).

Aerial view looking northwest of Midtown Manhattan in Spring, 1963. The Empire State Building are at foreground, center, and the Rockefeller Center buildings with the new Avenue of the Americas’ modern skyscrapers surrounding them, are at right, bacground.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: "El Mundo en que Vivimos". Tomo. 5. "América". (Barcelona, España. 1970).

The 46-story New York Hilton Hotel (originally The New York Hilton at Rockefeller Center). 1335 Avenue of the Americas, between west 53rd to 54th Streets. William B. Tabler-Harrison & Abramovitz, 1961-1963.

The recently completed New York Hilton hotel in this view looking northwest from Sperry Rand Building, in Summer, 1963. The steel skeleton under construction of the new J.C. Penney Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1965) begun to rises up on foreground, left.

Photo: Louis Reens.

Source: Progressive Architecture. August 1963.

Aerial view looking northwest of Grand Central district’s skyscraper, in Summer, 1963. The 59-story Pan Am (Walter Gropius-Emery Roth & Sons-Pietro Belluschi, 1963) and 77-story Chrysler (William Van Allen, 1930) are at center. The Chanin Building (Sloan & Robertson, 1929) are at left, and the 45-story Socony-Mobil Building (Harrison & Abramovitz, 1956) are at center, foreground. The 52-story Union Carbide (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1960) glass tower are at right, background.

Photo: New York Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Source: Antonio Villa. "Nueva York. Guía para visitantes". (New York, Modern Guides Company, Ltd. 1974).

Midtown Manhattan looking south from the top of Rockefeller Center’s R.C.A. Building in Spring, 1963. The 102-story Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) are at the center.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: Manhattan Post Card, Co-Dexter Press, Inc.